recycling

Include shelter for the homeless and recycling for inefficient appliances.

Trash/recycling pickup schedule is not affected.

Garbage and recycling collection will remain on schedule.

Everything inside the Free Store in Edmonton, Canada, is free. Co-owner Brandon Tyson can't figure out why thieves would break a window to take things.

The store gives away its merchandise as part of a recycling operation.

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Closed Thursday and Friday; trash/recycling collection slides one day.

The Student Engineering Council, along with Goodwill Computer Works, will hold an Austin-wide electronic waste (e-waste) drive to collect unused and disposable electronics and electronic parts that cannot be disposed of through standard methods of waste collection and recycling.

As part of National Cell Phone Recycling week, the Environmental Protection Agency is working with mobile phone companies to encourage Americans to recycle the 130 million cell phones they discard each year.

The EPA says recycling those phones would save energy, cut pollution and even reap gold, silver and copper.

Here's a link to the August issue of Austin City News. It includes articles on the 2009 City budget, the upcoming single stream recycling program which starts October 6th, information about the free summer writing camp for kids, front and...

Wednesday, a local recycling business owner was arrested again for not doing enough to prevent copper thefts.  But that’s not the only crime police say they discovered.

Wednesday, a local recycling business owner was arresting again for not doing enough to prevent copper thefts.  But that’s not the only crime police say they discovered.